A noter aussi qu'au départ, Bilou et Bouli sont supposé être des humains transformés par un rayon émis depuis cette planète (en cause, 7 pierres magiques qu'il va falloir rassembler pendant le jeu). J'ai laissé tomber cette partie du scénario quand je l'ai repris pour ma petite BD en 2000. Plus question "d'alien des plus étranges" donc.This was not exactly "the very beginning", but that's the closest we have preserved from that beginning. Somewhere at the end of 1994, there was a video-game design contest where the first prize was to have your game realised by a professional team. It definitely motivated my brother and myself to get some real "design documents" written. This is how the first ever storyline for "Bilou's Adventure" was written. Funny enough, by that time, Bilou and Bouli were initially humans that got lost in space. They're unfortunately approaching a mysterious planet and get hit by a "beam" that both attracts their ship and crash it on the surface, but also turn them into "strange aliens" : a blue ball and a yellow stick.

This has led my brother to start sketching levels for the Green Zone -- and not only sketching them, but also describing them, giving hints on the ennemies movement patterns, gameplay etc. It was full of fun (but impractical for me) ideas such as "stop the pollut-o-matic so that you can enter the river safely", floating, walking and flying bumpers, etc. On my side, i of course had to bring flesh to the bones, and visuals to all of those funny "special powers" that my brother had in mind. "flying", "diving", ... have seen a couple of animations sketched.

It's fun to think that this era is where i initially introduced Bouli in the game. Bilou was there for a long time ago, starring Pierrick's games as "a blue ball named Bubble". I somehow tried to make him look "opposite" to Bilou, unconciously using warm colours where Bilou was all of cold colours, being long and slim (mimmick'ing memorable duos such as Laurel&Hardy or Jack&Elwood) while Bilou was all round. Even his "mood" was different. Bilou started being fast and a bit "impetuous" while Bouli has that kind of "Zen Attitude" that suits the engineer of a revolutional spaceship -- Bilou being instead a talentuous pilot. Think about it: if things had not turned out that way, you might have seen Bouli dubbed "Superabbit" and Bilou might have been blue and magenta with some punk hair...

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somewhere, on planet Earth, there's a weird guy named Sylvain (aka. PypeBros) who loves to write programs and draw comics with a blue ball named "bilou". That's me.
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